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- John Galsworthy was born on August 14, 1867 in Kingston Hill, Surrey, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for That Forsyte Woman (1949), 21 Days Together (1940) and The Stranger (1924). He was married to Ada Nemesis Pearson Cooper. He died on January 31, 1933 in Grove Lodge, Hampshire, England, UK.
- SpouseAda Nemesis Pearson Cooper(September 23, 1905 - January 31, 1933) (his death)
- Won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.
- He allegedly declined knighthood but was awarded the O.M. (Order of Merit) in the 1929 King's Birthday Honours List for his services to literature.
- His writing was influenced by Ivan Turgenev and by Joseph Conrad, whom he befriended.
- Studied law and was called to the bar in 1890, but did not practice.
- [on Felix Salten's novel "Bambi"] I do not, as a rule, like the method which places human words in the mouths of dumb creatures, and it is the triumph of this book that, behind the conversation, one feels the real sensation of the creatures who speak.
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